Organizations

T.C. Williams High School has three orchestras: Chamber, String, and Minnie Howard.  They are directed by Dr. Tzu-Ching Tai, Ph.D.  The orchestras participate in school concerts and local and regional festivals.  In the Spring of 2015, the combined orchestras will travel to Orlando, along with the Band and Choir, for a national competition.

Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center has several program highlights. The first is a mentor program which matches high school art students with a Torpedo Factory artist, which also allows for the student to have an exhibition in the Art Center's Target Gallery.

Founded in 2010, Generation Hope selects teen mothers and teen fathers who have displayed academic achievement and a de More... Issues: Education Neighborhoods: Arlandria, Carlyle/Eisenhower Valley, Del Ray, North Ridge/Rosemont, Old Town, Other, Seminary, West End

To promote the welfare of the children and youth in home, school, community, and place of worship.

To raise the standards of home life.

To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth.

To bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth.